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Jaipur: In a shocking lapse of city policing, an unidentified man brazenly stormed into a house in upscale Sethi Colony Wednesday afternoon and violently snatched a gold chain from a 70-year-old woman in broad daylight.The victim, Shakuntala Devi, was drying clothes on her porch around 2pm when the intruder barged in, grabbed the chain around…

Jaipur: After a group of ministers in the 55th meeting of the GST Council proposed to increase GST from 12% to 18% on readymade garments costing more than Rs 1,000, the state industry appealed to the state finance minister, Diya Kumari, to raise the issue and oppose the move.The Garment Exporters Association of Rajasthan (GEAR)…

Jaipur: Jaipur (Rural) police Wednesday arrested a 40-year-old man who allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl and also beat her up.Police said that a person filed an FIR at Kaladera police station on Tuesday stating that the accused, Rajneesh Sharma, spotted her daughter alone and then sexually assaulted her after beating her up.The accused fled after…

Jaipur: In a significant move, Udaipur MP Mannalal Rawat has brought attention to a controversial demand in the Lok Sabha, calling for the removal of religious converts from the Scheduled Tribes (ST) category.Speaking in Lok Sabha Monday, the BJP MP advocated for applying the same criteria to STs as currently applicable to Scheduled Castes (SCs),…

Jaipur: Following TOI’s report on how locals have removed median slabs on the Ring Road to gain unauthorised access to the other flank, NHAI blocked the median gap on Wednesday.“We blocked the median gap late on Tuesday itself after we received information from TOI. We were not aware of it. The gap in the median…